Alameda County reported on Friday confirmed 10 more positive tests for COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus.
That does not include the number from Berkeley, which has an independent health department. It does, however, by itself represent the sharpest uptick in cases in Alameda County this week.
County health officials had discovered five cases over the past three days until reporting 10 on Friday, bringing the county’s total to 45.
Its neighbor to the north, Contra Costa County announced its first death from COVID-19 on Friday, while San Francisco’s case count rose to 76 and San Mateo became the second Bay Area county to hit triple-digits.
